Canada Test

A poll released just days before Canada Day indicates that 60 percent of Canadians couldn’t pass a citizenship test similar to one newcomers must take to become citizens. Just one-third of those polled could correctly identify the number of provinces and territories while only 4 percent could name four political parties represented in the House of Commons.

It gets better.

Ninety-six percent named “O Canada” as the national anthem, but only six in 10 could recall the first two lines. Yes, it’s pathetic, but all it would take is a similar poll testing Americans on their knowledge of United States to make the Canadian results not seem so bad.